 | | Fuse on motor power cables —MSI: Sean Cunningham
| | | | My current robot platform is a hacked toy and does not have ideal motors. I am concerned about toasting my motor driver chips. Can I put a polyswitch fuse in series in the motor lines to protect against this? They don't seem to be polarity (...) (28 years ago, 24-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Fuse on motor power cables —Fred G. Martin
| | | | | (...) All system power, incl. motor pwr, already runs through the existing polyswitch. They're not too fast, so I'm not sure if they'll save you. the motor chips do have over-current protection of their own, though it has been known to fail from (...) (28 years ago, 24-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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